The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-06-16
Generalities.

II. Rider IIaggar,l. the novelist is only 81
years old
The decrease of The public debt in May was
$S.SSS. .99,.
1t is estimated that there are l2looo oll SOL
diers in The State of Kansas.
Pcrrin>, the Worcestershire sauce lnakcr
leaves a fortune of $500 900.
SAN Francisco >,nuggled packed brandy In
cases and labelled it "Salt pork"
Earthquakes occurred May at Trinidad. 81
| Lucia, 81. Vincent and Grenada
The half-brced, in Manitoba art making
| trouble for the Canadian authorities.
There are employed by the Post Otlice De
partmcnt alone about 100000 persons.
a boy aged seventeen years has cIopei with
Il matron of forty->iX from Aver, Mass.
The export of ice from Norway is a grown4
| trade, 235, 900 tons having been exported last
| year.
| The labor of that class of ignorant foreigners
| whose only idea is of anarchy is dear at any
| price.
| 1t is said that Bo>toli'> bills for a weeks en-
| terainmcnt Of Qncen kapiolani Will amount to
| $4,000.
| In the art of straining at guats and swallow
| in@ cimcl> the Muywlmp press has never had
| an equal
| The decrease of the national debt for the tS-
cal year en'iing june is expected to be about
| 500, ,0O0,000.
| A Vermont farucr, while sick in bed, shot
! his wife on Wednesday, intlicting probably
| fatal wounds.
British manufacturers are unpca>antly af-
| fcoted by the long and short haul clause of the
| interstate law.
| Mrs. Raymond (Annie Louise Cary) will
| spend Il part of the summer with friends ut
! Rutland, Mass.
The Industrial Life and Accident Insurance
! Company OF Baltimore has died after IN exist
| ence of four months.
a new bullion vault will be constructed in
Washington to hold the vast aud rapidly in
crcasing hoard of silver dollars.
| The increase in churches in this country is
reckoned at ten day. But the increase in gin
mills quadruplcs that figure.
| Calcutta, June 2, 1857. There is now little
| doubt that IL steamer with 80 lives on board
was lost i'm the recent cyclone, ls was reported
| il few days ago.
| From July 1, 1856. to April /. 1857, the mcm-
bership of the Knights of Labor in New York
| city aud vicinity has fallen off from 104, 400 t o
| 81 18 This is not attributed to loss of in
| terest. but to dis>ensions.
| The harbor of Odessa. the great grain port of
| Russia. has been dcepened i'm many places to ~
feet. and a movement is on foot for the con-
| struction of separate harhor for the accommo-
,lation of coal and petroleum carrying vessels.
In Rhode Island factory town, Il certain
employer recently paid out to his employees on
Saturday night 800 in new bills that had been
| secretly marked. On the following Monday
| 800 of these marked bills We're deposited in
| the bank by the salOon-keepers of The town.
Friends of the Democratic internal revenue
officials who have been suddenly turned out of
office by the consolidation of certain districts in
New England are at Il loss to understand the
| Presidents motive, inasmuch as there will be
very little, If any, saving in the amount of sal
aries paid.
1t is believed that the mission of the revenue
cutter to Alaskan waters is not to insist that
Behring's Sea is land locked and to keep out
| British sealers, but to see that foreign sealers
are not permitted to fish within the unqlles-
toned jurisdiction of the United States-three
miles from shore.
From st. Peter down to Leo XIII there
have been 2la Popes. OF these 50 are venera-
ted rs saints, 3 were martyred, 104 We're ma
tives Of Italy. II We're Frenchmen. 8 Greeks, !
Germans. 8 Asiatics, 3 Africans, Spaniards, j
Damatians. One was Il Hebrew, Thracian,
a HOlander, a Portuguese, 1 Candot, and
an Englishman.